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  1. mindmeld

    Strange On-Train Announcements

    Ha! funny thing co-incidence! My driver and I got it going the other way! just here...http://www.watercressline.co.uk/bittnews.htm
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    Jimmy Sommerville- Smalltown Boy

    Ha, followed the link Tonys fotopic site and it was like goin back in time! Spent weeks and weeks of previous life on Reading Station when it looked just like that! All above are correct about the bridge. Remember it being built. Easier to run over then going through the tunnels. Don't forget no...
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    problems with rail staff

    Sure it does but you can be a mature student when your seventy so you see the potential for problems!
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    Channel 5 Doco - Going Loco (1999)

    Wow, haven’t seen that Url mentioned for a long, long while. Remember frequenting the site all the time when I first hooked up to the net. Also remember that the site just vanished one day after a period of media controversy, the details of which escape me but I have a hunch that it might have...
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    problems with rail staff

    Hi 156401, You will be paying full fare on the 1st day of your 16th year. Enjoy the wait while it lasts. Finding the correct age of passengers travelling/producing child tickets is one of the continual challenges faced by coal face railway staff. I personally find it easier to assess the...
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    The suicides must stop.

    Good Thread this. Here’s my 5p's worth if I may.... Just to set the scene... I've been a Guard working the SWT mainline for just over 11 years. It’s a real 'people' job. No day is ever the same even if the routes are. The thing about being a Guard is that it really helps if you can get to...
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    Derelict Class 47 at Eastleigh

    Might be able to add something here....might be completely wrong but I did hear from an EWS bloke I know that there was a... ....rumour that when it was unloaded from Road Transport (?) into the yard to be towed to the works for Coras Rail rebirth, somehow the fuel tank was ruptured and...

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